YOGYAKARTA, INDONESIA – On October 20, 2018, 84 farmer leaders from 21 countries, representing 38 million small scale farmers, fishers, indigenous peoples, herders and pastoralists, met with the 37 staff of the IFAD Asia and Pacific Region Division in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, for the first Asia Pacific Region Farmers Forum (FAFO). The Forum was held in conjunction with […]
Tomato is a food that is enjoyed worldwide. In Sri Lanka, tomato is eaten as it is or used as an ingredient for salad, processed as a juice drink, jam, and tomato sauce, and mixed in almost all types of curries. In the village of Dodamkumbura, tomato is one of the crops that the farmers […]
The Akphivat Srok Yoeung Cooperative was established through a consolidation of four self-help saving groups from four villages in Prey Chhor district, Kampong Cham province, Cambodia with technical support from a project of a local NGO called CEDAC since 2008. When the project was phased out, the self-help groups continue to grow organically and were […]
Uttar Pradesh, India – The Barabanki District of Uttar Pradesh prides itself on having many women farmers. They cultivate diverse crops including wheat, mustard, fenugreek, vegetables, among others. With the land being fertile, they earn reasonably well but because of following traditional farming practices, they are handicapped in terms of quality and quantity of produce, […]
The Institute for Motivating Self-Employment (IMSE), a farmers’ organization in West Bengal, is carrying out two major campaigns in support of farmers to enable them to keep the land they till and to use sustainable agriculture practices to make small-scale farming viable while protecting the environment. Village-level awareness camps were conducted to demonstrate the benefits […]
The youth are the future of agriculture. However, in the past years, the Agriculture and Farmers Federation of Myanmar (AFFM) saw low participation of youth in agribusiness, which is attributed to the limited access to resources such as land, start-up capital, business mentors, and increasing number of youth moving from rural to urban areas and […]
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“Some people joined our group just long enough to learn how to make soap, and then they started producing and selling soap directly to our customers for a lower price without telling the rest of us! That really damaged our customers’ trust in us,” recalls Ms. Phonevilay, looking slightly frustrated about the recent events. So […]
